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In IDLE on mac, how do i go to the next line? When i press enter it runs the code but id like to execute more than one line.

12th Jan 2017, 7:53 AM
elzago
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Don't have mac too, but at the prompt ( >>> ), you can execute multi-lines... there's two way of doing: When an expression stand alone in a unique line ( means valid instruction runnable ), validate execute it, and you can type another one WITH KEEPING CONTEXT, so you can run/execute more than one line, but at this point, with big time lag due to time to type or even copy-paste ^^ Another way is provided by particularity of Python with defining blocks with indentation: If you type an expression which need to become with a indented block of instructions, when you validate for new line, Python interpretor cannot yet execute it and may waiting for the next code to be typing by user... so Python ( Idle ) change the prompt sign ( from '>>>' to '. . .' ) to explicit that is waiting more code and will repeat that at each new line, until the user validate an empty line... Well so, with all that stuff, we have a third way which open to us ;) For executing more than one standalone instruction/expression at each line validation, we have to just define a block of code, what we could do by defining a function: >>> def nexted_instructions(): . . . print("test") . . . print("do others thing') . . . print("how many you want") . . . print("the only limit, is the lack of ease to edit/correct") . . . print("by the way, Idle isn't design for that purpose ^^") . . . An then, excute it: >>> nexted_intructions()
12th Jan 2017, 8:47 AM
visph
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You are using the shell window. You have to click File, and then new, to open an editing window with unlimited lines that you can save.
28th Jul 2017, 1:25 AM
Wolfy Mountain
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